Balancing between integration and autonomy. Understanding the drivers and mechanisms of EU's foreign, security and defense policy (EUFLEX)
EUFLEX studerer både hvordan EU, medlemsstatene og assosierte stater, som Norge, balanserer mellom hensynet til å ivareta nasjonal selvbestemmelse (autonomi) på den ene siden, og lojalitet til selve E...
Militser inntar regjeringskontorene i Irak
Militslederen Muqtada al-Sadr kom seirende ut fra det nylige valget i Irak, og nå tar han trolig med seg Iran-vennlige militser inn i regjering.
Adaptive Mediation
Traditional state-based and determined-design models are ill-equipped to help mediators manage increasingly dynamic, complex and unpredictable violent conflict systems. In this paper we explore an alternative approach, namely an iterative adaptive mediation process that enables the parties to generate solutions themselves, and that responds more nimbly to the challenges posed by complex conflict dynamics. With Adaptive Mediation, the aim of the mediator is to provide the benefits of external intervention without undermining self-organisation. When this approach is applied to conflict analyses, planning, monitoring and evaluation, the ability of mediation processes to navigate uncertainty and adapt to changing dynamics will be enhanced. In order for more resilient and more self-sustainable agreements to emerge, adaptive mediation requires mediators to apply a lighter touch. This encourages greater interdependence among the parties, and discourage dependence upon the mediator. As a result, utilising an adaptive mediation approach should result in generating peace agreements that are more locally-grounded, that are more self-sustainable and that are better able to withstand set-backs and shocks.
PODKAST: Skaper FN fred?
Ifølge Kari Osland er kjempeorganisasjonen fortsatt svært viktig for verden.
Teoriseminar: Why weak states persist and alternatives to the state fade away
Arjun Chowdhury besøkjer NUPI for å diskutere sine nye bok “The Myth of International Order: Why weak states persisa and alternatives to the state fade away”.
Etterretning og kontroll i ei verd av komplekse truslar
Ian Leigh og Njord Wegge lanserer ny bok om utfordringane etterretnings- og kontrollorgana står overfor i eit endra tryggingsmiljø.
Russia's strategic approaches to Europe: Addressing the puzzle through policy relevant research (StratApproach)
Hvordan er Russlands strategiske tilnærming til Europa formet av landets tolkning av vestlige intensjoner og handlinger? Og hvilke konsekvenser har denne tilnærmingen for Norge?...
Kinship diplomacy, or diplomats of a kin
Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the idiom goes, and historically there are ample examples of how family-ties and blood kinship have not fostered peaceful cooperation. By contrast, metaphorical kinship has been seen to grease the wheels of diplomacy, creating and sustaining ties between different polities and underpinning a shared diplomatic culture. While metaphorical kinship and family metaphors are certainly central to diplomacy, my main argument in this chapter is that blood kinship, has been underestimated as a cohesive factor in diplomatic interaction. At a general level, I argue that notions and practices of blood kinship, both in consanguine and affinal form, mattered to ‘modern’, Euro-centric and noble-dominated diplomacy from its emergence during the Renaissance to roughly speaking 1919. However, both notions and practices varied and were deployed in different ways at different times, reflecting differing configurations of knowledge and power. In the renaissance, kinship diplomacy could be understood as a leftover from earlier ways of organising social interaction. With consolidating policies in the early modern period, kinship diplomacy became particularly important for families and polities situated in border regions between larger polities. Finally, much of the diplomatic culture often associated with the ‘classical diplomacy’ of the 18th and 19th centuries, was based not only on notions of commonality, but on invoked blood kinship and marriages across boundaries.
KRONIKK: EØS gir oss vern i handelskrigen
Norge slipper unna EUs ståltoll. Det kan vi takke EØS-avtalen for, skriver Arne Melchior.
KRONIKK: Skjerpet lobbykamp
Etter brexit vil Storbritannia måtte påvirke EU fra utsiden. Norge får konkurranse.